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In this paper we present a study of an Ant Colony System (ACS) for the two-dimensional strip packing problem. In our computational study, we emphasize the influence of incorporating a simple optimization method at each cycle of the ACS. In this hybrid approach, local optimization is applied to a subset of the newly generated solutions to move them to a local optimum. We show that our ACS algorithm,...